No Words is the Gallery’s collaborative, socially responsive and process-led museum programme, providing cultural art therapy sessions to community audiences and frontline social services.
Our sessions take place in the Gallery’s Education Studio and are led by resident cultural art therapist Andrea Plunkett. Andrea is a fully qualified and registered art therapist in private practice, and current chair of the Irish Association of Cultural Art Therapists (IACAT).
The Gallery is proud to be leading the way in embedding cultural art therapy practices into our programming. Art therapy is not about ‘teaching’ art, rather it is a form of psychotherapy, which uses creative techniques to help people explore and process their experiences and promote self-awareness and healing. Cultural art therapy takes place in a cultural, non-clinical setting, with participants spending time both with our collection in the gallery spaces, and in art making activities in the Education Studio.
You can find out more about how this programme began here.
If you would like to learn more about this programme, or are interested in participating, please contact:
- Brina Casey, Education Officer Community, Access & Health: [email protected]
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